Publisher's Description

Active@ KillDisk - Hard Drive Eraser is powerful and compact software that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders. It's a hard drive and partition eraser utility. Active@ KillDisk conforms to US Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M. The most secure Gutmann's data destruction method is also implemented. You can be sure that once you clean up with Active@ KillDisk, sensitive information is purged out forever. New Wipe function that wipes out all unused space on existing drives, not touching existing data. We highly recommend you to run this FREE utility for the hard and floppy drives you want to dispose of, recycle, re-use, sell or donate to somebody.

They said they are going to give me a refund. The very scary thing about this is the person who answers the phone at LSoft Technologies was not at all interested in hearing that there may be a problem with their website store. She assumed I had made some sort of mistake, or that someone else had previously used my computer to order from them...I forwarded my concerns via email to Lsoft.

If I'd gotten it to work, I'd have been delighted to have a single-floppy wipe disk utility.

Cons

For whatever reason, the FreeDOS kernel used with this product hung on bootup on the two older machines I worked with (a Compaq Presario 3900 and a Dell Optiplex GX250).

Summary

Assuming it can boot the system you want to wipe, this looks promising due to the reviews. Alas, it wouldn't work for me. I ended up using a Linux-based wipe disk utility (Darik's Boot And Nuke), which was absolutely perfect for my needs.

I use this tool to format hard drives every week. It has NEVER let me down and is a must to anyone wishing to rebuild a PC from scratch. It has a handy USB & Bootable Disk creator which, again, works everytime.

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